Chain Mails

I've never received so many emails in my life..that is until i got here. The ratio goes at 1 every hour due to the many listserv i'm in. it gets really creepy when u wake up one morning and you find the inbox clogged up with tonnes of mails...well that exactly happened one fine morning....
(all names are replaced with pseudonyms to protect the identity of the culprit)

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Re : Good Places for Casual Thai Food (1435 hours)

Anyone know a good place to get casual Thai food? Takeout would be fine.

University City would be fantastic, but green/blue line accessible works too. I have an amazing craving for Thai spring rolls.
Thanks Stouffer!

EP

(I promise to remedy any inconvenience this email might have caused by offering zucchini bread in the near future)

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RE : baking powder ? (2105 hours)

I'm going to be making zucchini bread... but I don't have baking powder (oops).

Does anyone have a teaspoon of baking powder that I can use? Call me at xxx-xxxx-xxxx or come to Mayer xxx.


Thank you!

EP

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RE : baking powder ? (2123 hours)

A fantastic person here on mayer 3rd floor gave me the baking powder.

Thanks!

EP

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RE : Zucchini bread- just baked (2253 hours)

Fresh out of the oven zucchini bread.
Limited quantities (less than 1/2 a loaf).

Mayer xxx

The door's open.

EP

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RE : ALL GONE- Zucchini bread- just baked (2304 hours)

#blank#

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RE : Need to borrow some things (2313 hours)

My neighbor D is really getting on my nerves, which brings me to my question- Does anyone have some cyanide or strychnine I could borrow? I'll pay you back in some manner, though not necessarily in dollars.

B

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RE : Need to borrow some things (2319 hours)

Dear B,

While unfortunately I do not have any cyanide or strychnine, I do have a large collection of EP emails which should have the same effect you're looking for.

Forever yours,
D

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RE : Need to borrow some things (2330 hours)

hey don't talk about my love like that

cheers,
j

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RE : Need to borrow some things (2337 hours)

I second D's email wholeheartedly.

S

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RE : Need to borrow some things (0057 hours)

Me too...but did he have to send it twice?

p

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RE : Need to borrow some things ( 0113 hours)

D-
I don't think we've met.

Come over, say hello and try some baked goods next time you receive one of my pestering emails.

Humor is funniest when it isn't at someone else's expense.
Remember, you can always unsubscribe from the list serve.

Have a great week!

EP

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RE : Need to borrow some things (0129 hours)

I completely second Erika.

~A

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RE : Need to borrow some things (0137 hours)

ok, enough is enough. i'm all for this email argument, but come on, it's 1:30 in the morning and i have class tomorrow, how am i supposed to sleep with all of this commotion?

B

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RE : Need to borrow some things (0139 hours)

I vote for 12 rounds of bare knuckle boxing.

Unfortunately, I don't know who psi and stn are, but otherwise this seems split down gender lines. And as I know that Dylan, Buddy, and Josh punch like toddlers, I'm taking the girls in 5. Knockout, of course.

AR

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RE : Need to borrow some things (0140 hours)

Woohoo, I hate all those random emails from the stouffer list serve so maybe I should spam the thing myself and start a chain of more spam. People are always complaining about what they see as abuse of the list
serve.

How hard is it to
a) Take yourself as Erika said or
b) If you're like me and find the emails useful once in a while, apply a filter to your email and archive them or set it in a different folder than the rest of your mail.

If your too lazy or don't care enough to do either of these things, then please don't complain, especially when your medium of complaint happens to be the very thing that annoys you.

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RE : Need to borrow some things (0156 hours)

This is ridiculous. Just like Mr.D here "can always unsubscribe", so can ~A or EP. If you don't want to receive emails from the list (even from someone as cruel as D), just leave.
By the way, D's joke was not really at your expense, EP. What profit did you lose? What credibility? What anything? D's not the first person to mention your emails; I've heard several people complain and joke about them. Perhaps you'd rather that people joke about you without you knowing; maybe that would be better? Or maybe, you could go and find everyone who has mentioned your emails, make a list, and let everyone on Stouffer Announce know how terrible they are for joking about you.
Hey...or you could make a daily EP Digest. You know; let us know what you've got and what you want in one, daily email. Stouffer can still be awesome (sharing/giving what we have) and you don't have people joking about you.
Now I'm sure some people reading my email think I'm being pretty annoying about this, but really; is anything I've said any more annoying than, "Remember, you can always unsubscribe from the list serve"? Personally, I don't mind any of these emails; Stouffer has stouffer-announce and PennLive provides a "Deleted" folder, both for good reasons.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do. lolol

DR

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RE : Need to borrow some things (0204 hours)

Oh AR, what would we do w/out you?
~A

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RE : Need to borrow some things (0217 hours)

i second that. AR is very hot, and i feel that all of stouffer should know. hey bro, how about we have some soccer practice later.

love,
j

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RE : Need to borrow some things (0218 hours)

Ok everyone needs to calm down and relax a little bit. This isn’t an argument or a fight, this was a joke in response to another joke done in good humor and not as an attack on EP. Yes maybe she is sending out a lot of emails that people might not be interested in, but that is exactly what the Stouffer announce email list serve is all about. If you don’t want to get all of her emails or anyone else’s then yes you can unsubscribe to the list-serve. If you want to use the list-serve as it was intended then use it right. Don’t send out “Got it” emails or a synopsis of what everyone else sent to you to the whole list-serve because that’s just unnecessary spam. Or another option is to create your own list-serve. Many people in Stouffer are familiar with the goonsquad list-serve, which is made up of some Stouffer friends who email each other a lot about events and stuff as not to spam everyone is Stouffer with things they don’t care about and don’t need to read. Just use your head guys, we’re all smart here. And please don’t take things too seriously, we’re all friends here. This all started because B sent out an email jokingly saying he wanted to kill me. I didn’t get upset or angry because I knew it was in good humor, because we are friends. And we are all friends here in Stouffer. No one is at to get, harm or hurt anyone else, so just relax everyone and enjoy living in Stouffer, because you could have just as easily been living in the hellhole that is the Quad.

Thanks,
D

p.s. I admire your relentless effort to get women AR. Good luck with that.

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RE : about the list-serve (0917 hours)

Hello Stouffer-

Imagine my surprise when I woke up this morning and saw 20 messages to the Stouffer list-serve! Unfortunately, they were not for the purpose that the list-serve was created. The stouffer-announce list-serve was created at the request of residents who wanted a forum to buy a book or borrow a cup of sugar from their neighbors or share their just baked cookies. It was not created to tease one another, however good intentioned, or to needlessly clog up people's mailboxes with an on-going argument. Let's try and
keep the list-serve traffic to the purposes it was intended. If you have questions about this, please e-mail me directly!

many thanks,
M
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To those who got this far, dang, you ppl really got nothing else better to do !.lol...